GUNS N' ROSES Uploader Kevin Cogill - "I Knew As Soon As This Went Down, Nobody Would Give A Shit About Me Doing A Public Service Announcement"
July 16, 2010, 14 years ago
According to Wired.com, convicted GUNS N' ROSES uploader, Kevin Cogill, isn’t the anti-piracy pitchman the Recording Industry Association Of America was hoping for.
A year ago Wednesday, the 29-year-old Los Angeles man was sentenced to two months’ home confinement and a year of probation for uploading nine unreleased tracks of Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy to his music site. Federal prosecutors initially sought six months of prison, but Cogill got no time after agreeing to do an RIAA public service announcement that would scare future file sharers straight.
But nobody has made him perform the PSA. As of Wednesday, and he’s no longer under the court’s jurisdiction. So the deal is no longer legally binding.
“I knew as soon as this went down, nobody would give a shit about me doing a PSA,” Cogill said in a recent telephone interview.
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